GULF OIL CORPORATION v. BECK

SC 769.

300 So.2d 822 (1974)

GULF OIL CORPORATION v. Stephen H. BECK and Daisy I. Beck.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibbons, Stokes & Clark, Mobile, for appellant.

Richard L. Thiry, Mobile, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

The question presented by this appeal is whether actual possession by a vendee under an unrecorded deed is "notice" to a subsequent judgment creditor of the vendor so as to prevent the judgment's creditor's lien from attaching.

Grantors, Joseph C. Thompson and Lucille J. Thompson, conveyed a lot in a subdivision in Mobile County to Stephen H. Beck and Daisy I. Beck. The deed was dated August 22, 1966. The Becks went into possession immediately...

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